Cold Blood: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Cold Blood Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
On Her Own
Apr 12, 2012 · 60 min
Winston-Salem in 1982 is a city divided by race. And when a young white copy editor is raped and stabbed to death blocks from where she worked, the atmosphere is tense. Twenty year
Evil Twin
Apr 19, 2012 · 60 min
Shock waves ripple throughout Clearwater, Florida, when an attractive waitress is found on her bedroom floor stabbed 16 times. As years pass and the case goes cold, police fear DNA
Shot in the Dark
Apr 26, 2012 · 44 min
A budding college football player's life is cut short when his 21st birthday party ends with his brutal murder. A gun shot to the head with a bullet wound so exact that Lexington p
Murder on the Menu
May 3, 2012 · 44 min
When Jim Webb, Co-Owner and Head Chef of the General Wayne Inn outside of Philadelphia, is found shot to death in his office, police hatch a plan so risky it could mean letting a k
Park Slope Justice
May 10, 2012 · 60 min
A murderous attack in Park Slope, Brooklyn, leaves Sylvia Lugo dead and her girlfriend, Amanda Leach, raped and shot in the leg. Police struggle to pin down an assailant without an
Philadelphia's Night Stalker
May 29, 2012 · 44 min
When Wharton business student Shannon Schieber is found raped and strangled to death in her Philadelphia apartment, the city errupts with outrage as it's discovered that Shannon's
Dreams That Kill
May 24, 2012 · 60 min
When Rachel Kosub is discovered naked, brutally raped, and strangled to death on her office floor, San Antonio police question who could commit such a vicious murder. They struggle
Nightmare in Nashville
May 31, 2012 · 44 min
A McDonalds restaurant manager is murdered in a small Tennessee town and the police force goes into overdrive. But with a big list of suspects investigators are baffled and the cas
The Truth Hurts
Jun 15, 2012 · 44 min
Palo Alto's community sympathize with wealthy property developer Ken Fitzhugh when his wife of more than 30 years, Kristine, falls to her death down the basement stairs. But police